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After
15 years of self-imposed monastic seclusion, I re-emerged in 2016. To my
unmitigated horror and disorientation, I found out that the world I had left
behind is gone for good and the new normal is as alien to me as the surface of
Pluto.
I
withdrew into my shell in the 1990s, a time of unbridled optimism in the West.
Now, a mere two decades later, everything is topsy-turvy:
Sex
is meaningless and casual, promiscuity is an accomplishment, virginity a
repellent liability, adultery is universal and fun;
Divorce
and reciprocal abuse are the norms in all manner of so called
"relationships", intimacy is threatening, courting is harassment;
Expertise
is suspect, mocked, and rejected;
Charitable
acts are vile conspiracies, technology is slavery, erudition is derided,
truthism and malignant grandiose egalitarianism abound;
Entitlement
pervades; career criminals are martyrs, law enforcement monsters, con artists
and actors rule and rock;
Social
interactions and sexuality are vanishing, loneliness is in vogue;
The
occult, the paranoid, and the irrational are considered superior to science and
rationality, books and learning are niche pursuits;
Birthrates
tumbled under the replacement rate, marriage and parenthood are widely shunned
and frowned upon;
Only
the virtual is real, censorship is praised, rabid and escalated self-promotion
touted;
Plutodemocracies
and authoritarian psychopaths govern, poverty, hardship, and sickness the norm
worldwide.
And
this was before Nature declared war on us.
I
count my blessings: I don't have much longer to live. This is one planet I
would be delighted to check out of. It is not mine and I have no idea how I
ended up here. I want to go home.
September 16, 2012
I hate this brave,
new world where:
Illiteracy is 140
characters long and has a face-book;
Everyone has a
thousand virtual "friends", but virtually no real friend;
Every child has a
mother and multiple fathers, but no parents;
Knowledge is a
matter of opinion and opinions a matter of fads;
Our idols sport
muscles and vocal cords, but little else besides;
The right to vote
is universal, but the will to vote is not;
Everyone has a
right to free speech, but little of value to say;
Extramarital sex
is considered recreation and monogamy a throwback;
The only ideology
is self-gratification and collectives are mere dim memories;
The only certainty
is uncertainty and the only permanent fixture is change (for change's sake);
Obsolescence is
the driver of innovation, but science, art, and literature are obsolete;
As men and women
lose their traditional roles, confusion and inter-gender enmity reign. In a
unisex world, homosexuality, or sexual abstinence are rational choices. As
malignant, narcissistic individualism is on the rise, the species is dying out.
In many countries - including major ones such as Japan, Russia, and Germany -
the population is declining precipitously. More than one third of the youth of
these places opt for celibacy and singlehood. Sperm counts have plummeted by a
whopping 70%.
We
are in the throes of vanishing.